webrates

Project for #owfa hackathon!

Goal: make rate negotiation easier for underrepresented groups in tech.

Minimal Viable Product

Who: a freelancer negotiating rates.

What: It should answer the question "how much is fair for me to charge for my work?"

Demographics:

  • Age
  • Experience (in years)
  • Gender
  • Location of employer
  • Your location (prompt if IP differs from above)
  • Job Type
    • Designer
    • Developer
    • Product
    • Marketing (?)
  • Education
    • Degrees, Schools ?

Stretch ideas

Additional demographic criteria:

  • Orientation
  • Existing or new code base ?
  • Natural Languages
  • Tech used
    • Programming Languages
    • Frameworks
    • Database Software

Features:

  • Follow up with an email
  • API

Prior Art

Developing

The app is just static HTML; all you need to do is serve the local directory. Note that we're developing on the gh-pages branch.

  1. fork this repo
  2. git clone
  3. git checkout gh-pages
  4. python -m SimpleHTTPServer

Stylesheets are written with Compass+SASS, compiled, and checked into this repo. If you want to make a change, see the sass/ directory. You can generate the CSS files with compass compile.

License

MIT